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Madagascar Founded By Women[Indonesian]
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| 20 Mar 2012
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 03/23/2012 7:46:23 PM PDT by Theoria
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'The small number of Indonesian women is consistent with a single boatload of voyagers, Cox said, adding that typical Indonesian trading ships in the mid first millennium A.D. could hold around 500 people.
The distance between Indonesia and Madagascar is close to 5000 miles, so the women and their travel mates must have had quite a journey, especially if it was unintended.'
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:46:27 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:47:21 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:48:49 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: Theoria; a fool in paradise
Babes of Madagascar!
To: Theoria
How d'ya like the headwear fashion there?
To: Revolting cat!
The one with the big basket is smiling at you.
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:54:59 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Revolting cat!
Their hair seems a bit flat.
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:56:40 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Revolting cat!
Yes, it some ways its
efficient, however I prefer using new technology, perhaps the wheel combined with other material to move objects.
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:56:40 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: Revolting cat!
How d'ya like the headwear fashion there? I think they call that faggot fashion.
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:03:47 PM PDT
by
BRL
To: Theoria; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:13:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: Theoria
...who may have sailed off course. Women drivers! :)
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:19:02 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
To: Theoria
“Three men and one woman are trapped on an island. Send help immediately. If you can’t send help, send two more women.
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:24:51 PM PDT
by
Harpo Speaks
(Honk! Honk! Honk! Either it's foggy out, or make that a dozen hard boiled eggs.)
To: Theoria
I think there was some sperm involved in this somewhere...(shrug)
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:39:20 PM PDT
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Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: blam
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:42:08 PM PDT
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Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: Theoria
The study only traces through the females. 30 women did not found the Madagascar population. The genetic line traces back to thirty women who were among the group of founders who did not necessarily even arrive all at the same time.
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posted on
03/23/2012 10:21:08 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
To: Theoria
So... these 30 or so women “founded and settled” the island, rather than the men who tagged along behind them.
Amazing stuff, mitochondrial DNA. It apparently turns scientists into Womyn’s Studies professors.
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posted on
03/23/2012 10:50:58 PM PDT
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Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: Tainan
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posted on
03/24/2012 3:14:57 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Theoria
Madagascar was first settled and founded by approximately 30 women, ..... who may have sailed off course in a wayward vessel 1200 years ago.
No, no, no. They weren't 'off course' they went there on purpose.
One day a ship with two women on it where sailing by and told the Captain they had to go to the bathroom.
The Captain said fine, here's two buckets, go on the Poop Deck.
The women replied hell no, there's an island stop there so we can get some privacy in the bushes.
The Captain was now really ticked but stopped to end all the nagging.
And women being women, when they did get to the island and finished their business - refused to leave.
And thus, Madagascar was first settled.
(Honest. I saw it on the Internet)
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posted on
03/24/2012 3:51:43 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
To: Theoria
"Scientists assume some men were with the women." Wow! Some of these scientists must be quite brilliant. I wonder if the Global Warming scientists could recruit some of these.
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posted on
03/24/2012 6:11:42 AM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: Interesting Times
You’re right. The 30 founder women is easily seen in a group of 30 families. Have 30 mothers and 2-3 daughters + husbands and sons for a group of 200. Then you realize some women had only sons or daughters but only grandsons and the number doubles to 500.
A single ship of 500 people could have done it, but they’d have had more than 30 women.
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posted on
03/24/2012 7:34:10 AM PDT
by
tbw2
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